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INFO: rcu detected stall in io_wqe_worker
Status:
upstream: reported on 2026/09/27 11:36
Reported-by: syzbot+72fb96fd52db74ac560b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d14h, last: 1d14h
Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4503/1:b..l
(detected by 0, t=10503 jiffies, g=10997, q=277 ncpus=2)
task:iou-wrk-4498 state:R running task stack:27120 pid:4503 ppid:4275 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5246 [inline]
__schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6563
preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6875
irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:442
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x225/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5682
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f0 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004fff660 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 6ee62a774cd33000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c2a20 RDI: ffffffff8adf68a0
RBP: ffffc90004fff768 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2161e48
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2161e49 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 1ffff920009ffed8 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
aa_file_perm+0x133/0xf00 security/apparmor/file.c:611
common_file_perm+0x167/0x1c0 security/apparmor/lsm.c:495
security_file_permission+0x65/0xa0 security/security.c:1538
__io_read io_uring/rw.c:756 [inline]
io_read+0x43f/0x18b0 io_uring/rw.c:863
io_issue_sqe+0x28b/0xc90 io_uring/io_uring.c:1747
io_wq_submit_work+0x40e/0x9c0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1828
io_worker_handle_work+0x864/0x1190 io_uring/io-wq.c:603
io_wqe_worker+0x3df/0xed0 io_uring/io-wq.c:648
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9629 jiffies! g10997 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=0
rcu: Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
task:rcu_preempt state:R running task stack:27920 pid:16 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5246 [inline]
__schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6563
schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6639
schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 37 f3 96 f7 e9 44 ff ff ff e8 7d 03 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d 77 23 4a 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8c807d88 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 2451b564dd2a2d00 RBX: ffffffff8a3c8957 RCX: 2451b564dd2a2d00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c18a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf68a0
RBP: ffffffff8c807ec0 R08: ffff8880b8e357cb R09: 1ffff110171c6af9
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6afa R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff8c8bc740 R15: 1ffffffff1900fbc
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9d06be56c8 CR3: 0000000028690000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
default_idle_call+0x84/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:109
cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
do_idle+0x250/0x680 kernel/sched/idle.c:323
cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:422
rest_init+0x2dc/0x300 init/main.c:706
arch_call_rest_init+0xa/0xa init/main.c:865
start_kernel+0x493/0x53c init/main.c:1112
secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
</TASK>
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.